Youth

Youth

Youth is generally the time of life between childhood and adulthood (maturity). Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals can exist at all ages. Youth is also defined as "the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young". Youth is a term used for people of both genders, male and female, of young age. Generally under the age of 21 (common legal age).

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Famous quotes containing the word youth:

    A youth in apparel that glittered
    Went to walk in a grim forest.
    There he met an assassin
    Stephen Crane (1871–1900)

    Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)